Dark Persuasion - A History of Brainwashing From Pavlov to Social Media

This gripping history traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. Nobel laureates, university academics, intelligence operatives, criminals, cult leaders, and clerics all populate this shattering and dark story?one that hasn't yet ended.

About the author

Joel E. Dimsdale is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego. He consults widely to government agencies and is the author of numerous other works, including Anatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals. He lives in San Diego, CA.

Summary

A harrowing account of brainwashing’s pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Product details

• Authors: Joel E. Dimsdale, Dimsdale Joel E.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2023
• EAN: 9780300271034
• ISBN: 978-0-300-27103-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, Psychology, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social, group or collective psychology, General and world history, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms